On Fri, 2012-11-09 at 11:21 +0100, Matej Cepl wrote: > On 2012-11-09, 07:43 GMT, Adam Williamson wrote: > > It hasn't really 'skyrocketed'. We cited 512MB for several releases, > > bumped it to 768MB for F15/F16 (IIRC), got it back down to 512MB for > > F17, and it's back up to 768MB or 1GB for F18 atm because everyone has > > more important stuff to do than optimize the RAM usage right now. But > > it's not been rising crazily or anything. I think the last time someone > > took a deep look at RAM use during install - during F17 cycle when we > > got it back down to 512MB - it turned out a lot of the usage happened > > during package install and wasn't really to do with anaconda at all. > > I understand and accept that now everybody in the anaconda-land is busy > with something else, but let it not slip our attention how absolutely > crazy it is when the installation program requires twice as much (or > more) of the resources than all programs running on the computer > combined. I have here a server with RHEL-6 which I had to upgrade to > 512MB just to be able to install a system on it. Now it has plenty of > free RAM even with some bulky PHP apps (e.g., Zarafa) which is wasted. > With the spread of virtual machines, it seems to be even more obvious. > Wasn’t one of the advantages of VMs the fact that you can slice more > small machines on one computer? If you're doing that, it's pretty trivial to use pre-built images. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
